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Magicme
27/09/2006, 12:27 PM
...my first concert since broke my ankle at oxegen....going to see the one and only love god extreme Michael Franti in December....anyone else going???
Dr.Nightdub
27/09/2006, 12:55 PM
Him among others:

8th Oct The Congos & Trojan Soundsystem
15th Oct Sparklehorse
11th Nov Primal Scream
21st Nov Paul Buchanan
30th Nov The Killers
1st Dec Michael Franti

Killers is a "hopefully", all the rest are definites.
Magicme
27/09/2006, 1:03 PM
Want to go to Primal Scream but have no1 to go with me.....:mad:
BohsPartisan
27/09/2006, 4:00 PM
Awwwwwwwwwww...
Well now you can go with Dr. Nightdub
Neish
27/09/2006, 4:31 PM
Saw Michael Franti at Electric Picnic, he was excellent. Hope to get to Primal scream myself, trying to persuade a few of my mates to go
Magicme
28/09/2006, 8:00 AM
I rem seeing Disposable Heroes of Hipocrasy many moons ago and then saw Franti & Spearhead at REM in Slane & thats when I really became a fan of his....what a man! His music is class and he is one of my heroes now.

Would love to meet Dr there but problem is I will need to be seated coz of my gammy leg & am sure he will be down dancing like I wanna be!!
Dr.Nightdub
28/09/2006, 9:31 PM
Correctimundo!
Magicme
29/09/2006, 7:53 AM
Think I may have convinced my brother & his wife to go but when told them I would have to be seated (and all standing tickets are sold) they are not totally convinced!
BohsPartisan
04/10/2006, 4:47 PM
I rem seeing Disposable Heroes of Hipocrasy many moons ago and then saw Franti & Spearhead at REM in Slane & thats when I really became a fan of his....what a man! His music is class and he is one of my heroes now.

Would love to meet Dr there but problem is I will need to be seated coz of my gammy leg & am sure he will be down dancing like I wanna be!!

Saw Spearhead at Slane that time too.

Might go to Ghost face killa this Friday.

Public Enemy, Souls of Mischief and Arrested Developement all coming up but unfortunately I'll be out of the country for AD. Hope to make the other two though.

Then I've got Weller in November.
Magicme
04/10/2006, 4:54 PM
Dont mention the modfather to me boy!

When are Arrested Development playing?? I loved them. My bro is a dj and he has been mixing Mr Wendle through some of his stuff lately and got me back into the mood for them.
BohsPartisan
04/10/2006, 5:29 PM
October 28th
Magicme
05/10/2006, 8:34 AM
October 28th

Dammit am in Mayo for a Hen nite that weekend. Will u just kidnap Speech for me and post him to Mon Utd clubhouse and will collect him later in the week.
Dr.Nightdub
09/10/2006, 10:11 PM
8th Oct The Congos & Trojan Soundsystem
15th Oct Sparklehorse
11th Nov Primal Scream
21st Nov Paul Buchanan
30th Nov The Killers
1st Dec Michael Franti


One down, five to go. The Congos gig last night was an absolute corker. Started off with the group not so much coming on stage, but mounting a stage invasion - apart from a six-piece band and an MC, there was four singers, all oul-fella rastas aged 60+ with dreads and white beards, looked like Jamaica's answer to the Smurfs. Started around 9:15, finished their encore at 11:25 and were off stage for about 5 minutes out of that. Gorgeous harmonies, smatterings of dub excursions, wonderful energy and two hours' worth of dancing. What more could you ask for? :)
CollegeTillIDie
14/10/2006, 9:17 AM
Michael Franti? I have totally lost touch with the music scene. Never heard him.
stann
16/10/2006, 2:22 PM
Jaysus, you must have lost touch a long while ago then!

Was in the Beatnigs, a name I remember from my first days of reading Melody Maker (dunno, about 1987?), Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, brilliant rock/hiphop outfit from that golden age of the early 90s, and he's with Spearhead for the last ten years at least. Not a mad fan meself but he's a talented f*cker, no doubt.
CollegeTillIDie
23/10/2006, 6:34 AM
Well as for the remaining 6 acts on Dr. Nightdub's list I know four of them.
Paul Buchanan is billing himself as a solo act cause one of the Blue Nile guys didn't fancy touring this year. So it will be all Blue Nile stuff anyway.
Dr.Nightdub
13/11/2006, 12:22 PM
Primal Scream were superb on Sat, most coherent I've seen them since Xmas 2000 at the Point (and also the most coherent I've been at a Scream gig since then).

Good mix of material, mainly from "Vanishing Point" onwards. Two encores, including a cover of the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On", which completely made my night cos I've thought for years it'd be good song for them to cover. They didn't quite get around to covering the Jackson 5's "Want You Back" even though Mani tried sneaking the bass riff in a couple of times.

Magicme, did you go in the end? We could only get tickets for the very upstairs but that didn't stop us dancing. Couldn't believe the couple next to us though, they hardly moved except to go to the bar. Some people shouldn't be let go to gigs. :rolleyes:
Magicme
13/11/2006, 2:46 PM
No couldnt make it as things turned out but I know will see them again.

Glad u enjoyed tho!

Franti is only around the corner!
wws
13/11/2006, 2:48 PM
never knew he lived in Monaghan
Magicme
13/11/2006, 2:59 PM
never knew he lived in Monaghan


:D Y wouldnt he!!
Dr.Nightdub
13/11/2006, 6:52 PM
With having to be up early for the Cup final the next day, I may have to give Franti & Spearhead a miss - seems every time I go to a gig now, I end up having what my boss calls "another one of your dirty stopout nights" :o
Jaime
16/11/2006, 12:00 PM
Primal Scream were the business, hadn't seen them since the Point gig in 2000, and with the Olympia being a better venue both for Primal Scream, and in general, it was class. Great to see a band who are on the go for so long still able to turn out a performance like that, could teach a thing or two to some younger bands around. Had tickets for the Upper Cirle but just went downstairs anyway. :) Not a big fan of all the trancy Screamadelica ********, so was happy to see them playing Moving On Up as an opener, and then getting stuck into the serious business of Vanishing Point and Xterminator.

The support act, the View were fairly handy too. They are going to be very big very soon. They have the drummer towards the front almost level with the other two. Strange.
BohsPartisan
16/11/2006, 12:41 PM
Going to Weller on Saturday night. Recently bought the live album Catch - Flame and its great so looking forward to seeing him for the first time in 11 years.
Magicme
17/11/2006, 9:01 AM
You will have a great nite. He is a master. When he plays A Town Called Malice think of me and my ongoing hangover from that song! Enjoy!
BohsPartisan
19/11/2006, 5:35 PM
Fantastic gig. Live at least, he hasn't lost it. You can see that he, Craddock, Minchella and Stevie White really get on and enjoy playing and I doubt there is a group of as technically gifted musicians playing together anywhere right now. It was a stonking set that included three Jam numbers - Thick as Thieves, Running on the Spot and Town Called Malice. He played a lot of stuff off the first Solo album and Stanley Road. Minor gripes maybe not enough tracks off Wildwood (I'd have liked to have heard the title track and Sunflower, maybe the Weaver or Shadow of the Sun) and no Style Council numbers. Other than that I couldn't rate the gig highly enough. By the time Malice brought the Encore to a climax the crowd in the Gallery were on their feat dancing and singing along, hands in the air. Fantastic stuff.
Dr.Nightdub
21/11/2006, 11:45 PM
21st Nov Paul Buchanan / The Blue Nile


Did you ever just surrender your body to wave after wave of goose-bumps for an hour and a half?

I've just been to one of the best gigs EVER and I make absolutely no apologies for feeling the need to gush. I thought they were outstanding at the Electric Picnic but tonight was special. They're a band that inspires one of two reactions - either you've heard them and are a devotee or you've just never heard them full stop. There is no in-between.

Just sitting there, in an intimate setting, captivated by a man with a unique voice, so at ease in his own skin that he can do self-deprecation to the point of putting on his specs to check the lyrics of the next song.
"That was a new song."
"What's it called?"
"Oh I couldn't commit myself to that."

One moment, luscious keyboards washing over you, the next, an exquisite observation of everyday life on Main St., Anywhere that dangles you on a knife-edge of tingling intensity. Love, hurt, passion, the man could make a poem out of going down the shop to buy the evening paper of a summer's evening.

My soul did cartwheels tonight. And then they went and finished the night with "Strangers In The Night" and I just surrendered and let tears of bliss course down my cheeks.

They're playing again tomorrow night and I believe there's tickets going. Go, people.
Magicme
04/12/2006, 8:38 AM
Franti was frickin fantastic! Gutted didnt get to buy the DVD of his time in Iraq but will try get it. They were sold out by the time I got to the Kiosk!

Been listening to Yell Fire cd since coz its just fab.

Anyone else go?? Did u make it Dr??
Dr.Nightdub
05/12/2006, 10:35 PM
Nah, there was something on Sunday I had to be up early for... :(
Magicme
06/12/2006, 10:24 AM
Aw yeah....think u would have been better off going to the gig!
CollegeTillIDie
08/12/2006, 6:36 AM
I am looking forward to the first studio album from ROXY MUSIC since 1982.. due out I think early next year.